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Textarea content containing smart quotes, em dashes, etc not being saved

June 26, 2011 2:58pm

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  • #1 / Jun 26, 2011 2:58pm

    Brooks Seymore

    106 posts

    I keep running into an issue on site where content containing characters like smart quotes, em dashes, and assorted accented characters pasted into a textarea field is not saved when the submit button is clicked.

    I don’t mean the fancy characters aren’t retained, but everything I’ve pasted into the box completely disappears.

    This is a site I have upgraded from 1.6.7 to 2.2.0.

  • #2 / Jun 26, 2011 5:17pm

    Brooks Seymore

    106 posts

    Partly on a whim, and partly for necessity, I uploaded this site from a MAMP-based localhost install to a spare domain name and the issue seems to have resolved itself. I’m thinking the issue was more a localhost database issue than an ExpressionEngine / textarea / fancy character issue.

    Let’s keep this thread open for a couple more days while I continue manually importing content.


    B.

  • #3 / Jun 27, 2011 11:58am

    Sue Crocker

    26054 posts

    Sounds good, let us know what you find out. We’ll be here.

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